More travelers around the world are eager to travel by air this summer after two years of pandemic related restrictions, leading to a boost in airline business. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) reported on June 20, that the airline industry is expected to post a $9.7 billion loss in 2022 for a net loss…
Airline Industry Concerned About Rising Costs Despite Boost in Travel This Summer
June 20, 2022
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European Airport Labor Strife, Staff Shortages Disrupt Summer Travel
Labor strife and staffing shortages have European airports clamoring to find more workers, minimize cancelled flights, and reduce headaches for travellers during the busy summer season. Workers at France’s Charles De Gaulle airport are striking on Thursday for more pay, with a quarter of flights cancelled. In Italy, crews from budget carriers Ryanair, easyJet, and…
Rising Airline Ticket Prices Is Cooling Demand For Summer Travel
The airline industry is taking a hit with airline fares rising 19 percent between March and April, led by factors such as higher jet fuel prices and more travelers flying post-pandemic, says a report from Adobe published on May 12. Pilot shortages and increasingly random flight cancellations have also led to a reduction in service. Surging…
EU Set to Drop Mask Mandate for Air Travel Next Week
The European Union (EU) will no longer require passengers and crew members to wear masks onboard flights and at airports from May 16 as the continent looks to ease CCP virus restrictions, authorities announced Wednesday. “From next week, face masks will no longer need to be mandatory in air travel in all cases, broadly aligning with…
Health Experts Support End to Masks, Tests for Air Travel
U.S. airline companies want an end to mask and COVID testing rules for air travel — and many top infectious disease and public health experts agree with them. The chief executives of the country’s largest airlines asked President Joe Biden in a letter this week to let federal mask mandates at airports and on planes lapse next month, along…
Spring, 2022: Where We Stand
Travel developments have always been tough to predict accurately and now is no exception. Just as we thought summer would be a return to something like normal, Putin launches his reign of terror in the Ukraine and oil prices spike. Still, we can see a few trends that will affect travel this summer. 1. New…
Growing Demand for Air Travel to Increase Fare Cost for Customers: Airline Bosses
Growing demand for air travel could see the cost of airfares soaring this spring and summer, according to some of the leading airline executives in the United States. Bosses for some of the biggest carriers, including Delta Air Lines and American Airlines, said at a JPMorgan Chase investor conference on March 15 that they had witnessed an…
Aviation Groups Call for Lifting All COVID Restrictions on Air Travel
Two major aviation groups are calling on Europe to lift all COVID-related restrictions, citing a recent study that shows the effects of those measures are limited. The Airports Council International Europe (ACI) and International Air Transport Association (IATA) called for “all remaining COVID restrictions applying to intra-EU and Schengen area travel to be dropped, including…
Britons Book Half-Term Holidays Abroad as Travel Restrictions Ease
Hundreds of thousands of people in the UK are set to go abroad for their half-term holidays as the UK relaxed its international travel rules on Friday. A travel company said it saw bookings “comparable” to 2019 before the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic started. Travel association ABTA said families’ appetite for travel has been ramped…
Emirates to Again Fly Boeing 777 to US as 5G Rollout Slowed
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Long-haul carrier Emirates said Thursday it will resume its Boeing 777 flights to the United States after halting its use of the aircraft there over concerns new 5G services in America could interfere with airplane technology that measures altitude. International carriers that rely heavily on the wide-body Boeing 777, and other Boeing…
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